April Wolfe

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Claire in Motion Plumbs and Plumbs the Mysteries of Grief

April Wolfe
It's a question the movies ask again and again: How should a person grieve? In Annie J. Howell and Lisa Robinson’s slow-burn pseudo-mystery Claire in Motion, a talented mathematics professor named Claire Hunger (Betsy Brandt) realizes her amateur survivalist husband Paul (Chris Beetem) might not be coming home from his......
Jackie Chan; Credit: Courtesy of Well Go USA

Railroad Tigers Offers a Dirty Dozen–Style Caper on a Different Front

April Wolfe
For 75 years, the United States has dominated the production of World War II action comedies. There’s Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat (1959), and the exquisite ensembles in The Dirty Dozen (1967), Kelly’s Heroes (1970) and Inglourious Basterds (2009), among many others. We’re such......
The Invitation; Credit: Courtesy of Drafthouse Films

L.A. Weekly Film Critic April Wolfe's Top Films of 2016

April Wolfe
In this, the harrowing year of 2016, I could jump into the Oscars talk. I could pick groundbreaking films that reminded me time and again that movies are alive and more vital than ever, like the heartbreaking Moonlight, the soul-stirring Queen of Katwe, the force-of-goodness 13th, the subtle and sweet......